Monday, March 12, 2018

XPRIZE Launches New $10M, Avatar Competition

The XPRIZE, the Los Angeles nonprofit focused on running competitions to help solve world problems, has launched a new prize competition, in conjunction with All Nippon Airways (ANA). According to the fundation, it has launched a new, prize called the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE, which will focus on creating integrated, robot "avatar" devices which would remotely enable people to see, hear, touch, and interact with physical environments and other people, all remotely. According to the two, the competition will spur teams to create a robotic avatar that allows an untrained operator to complete a diverse series of tasks, from simple to complex, in a physical environment at least 100km away, in the next four months. XPRIZE and ANA said they are taking registrations from teams through October 31, 2018, with those teams expecting to submit a complete competition plan to its judges by January 31, 2019.